Understand calculus
By: P. Abbott & Hugh Neill
Contributors: Neill, Hugh; Abbott, Paul (Mathematics teacher)
Edition: New ed.
Series: Teach yourself; Teach yourself books
Publisher: Teach Yourself
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9781444102765
Subjects: Calculus
Description: This is a comprehensive introduction to calculus that will help you to progress to an advanced level. It offers a carefully graded series of lessons that introduce the basic concepts of differentiation and integration, and helps you to achieve understanding through clearly worked examples, diagrams and exercises.
Notes: Previous edition: published as Calculus by P. Abbott. 1997.
Table of contents: title: Functions; title: Variations in functions, Limits; title: Gradient; title: Rate of change; title: Differentiation; title: Some rules for differentiation; title: Maxima, minima, and points of inflexion; title: Differentiating the trigonometric functions; title: Exponential and logarithmic functions; title: Hyperbolic functions; title: Integration, Standard integrals; title: Methods of integration; title: Integration of algebraic fractions; title: Area and definite integrals; title: The integral as a sum, Areas; title: Approximate integration; title: Volumes of revolution; title: Lengths of curves; title: Taylor's and Maclaurin's series; title: Differential equations; title: Applications of differential equations.